Fourteen Months of Expansive Freedom

I just lived the best movies, called my life, I could have ever thought possible. Thanks to all the characters that helped, making it so heartfelt. This was really a blessing under the Sun.

You don’t get this blessed twice.

Last Night of Expansive Freedom, at last.

Letter to my Past, Present and Future

The last fourteen months of my life are the real jackpot of my existence.
Not in disguise. Not metaphorically. Not “in hindsight.”
Openly. Directly. Fully.

There is nothing I can truly say was bad about these last fourteen months. Every experience — the love, the emotions, the people, the unforgettable memories, the moments of intensity and stillness — all of it was profoundly enriching. Not many people get to experience fourteen months of full freedom. And not the kind of freedom that comes from money, where you can say, “I can do whatever I want because I can afford it.” This was internal freedom. Expansive freedom.

I grew so deeply within myself that I became unshakable.
No matter the scenario.
No matter the circumstances.
No matter the conditions or the context.

What I gained was an internal sovereignty that cannot be taken from me. This expansive freedom became the launch board of my life — the shuttle, the trampoline into everything that comes next. My future self will forever be grateful for this move. My past self would never have imagined I could become who I am now. I thought I might have millions in my bank account by now, but in truth, I have trillions within me. What my bank account says is irrelevant compared to the growth I’ve accomplished. The wealth I’ve built inside myself is immeasurable.

If someone calls that grandiose, I take it as a compliment.
The purpose I’ve grounded within myself — and the purpose I’ve been able to awaken in others — is grand. And it should be. I’ve sparked blessings within myself that no financial state could replace. Even when I was materially poor, these months were the wealthiest of my eternal life.

And this is only the beginning.

I’ve set so many things in motion that my future self will be deeply grateful for. Nothing can match these last fourteen months. Truly, nothing. I’m so curious to see what the next fourteen years will look like — because if this much growth and expansion happened in fourteen months, I can’t even imagine what coherence over fourteen years will bring.

I allowed myself to go with the flow of life for fourteen months — fully.
Unburdened by expectations.
Unburdened by fear.
Unburdened by performance.

Even being homeless for three weeks became an enrichment. I will forever be able to say I was homeless — and that I still grew, still built, still expanded. What others might call the lowest point of my life was simply context for my growth. I was already on this path of expansion since March 2024, and it peaked around December 2024 and January 2025. All the losses I experienced were gains in disguise. Not in denial — in truth. They removed what didn’t belong to me anymore.

One day, I’ll tell this story to my children — or to children born from my donated eggs, or to adopted children who carry my lineage in some form. I’ll tell them that I faced life head-on. I didn’t let life face me. I didn’t let anything penetrate me deeply enough to disrupt my expansive freedom. I stayed open, present, and unbroken.

Now I move into what I call “contracting freedom.”
Not because I’m less free — but because I’m choosing to be free within structure. I’m giving time to others’ rules, expectations, and frameworks. Yet my freedom is internal now. My sovereignty is embodied. So even structure feels expansive.

This was not an escape from life.
This was a full embrace of it.

I’ve had sabbaticals before. In 2018–2019, before moving to London, I took time off — but that wasn’t this. Back then, I was trying to become a version of myself that would be validated. I tried to be an influencer, a fashion version of me that looked cool in the moment but had no long-term substance. That path would have hollowed me out. I’m grateful I didn’t get stuck in that loop.

This time, I chose coherence over validation.
Purpose over performance.
Depth over aesthetics.

In the last fourteen months, I’ve been in profound alignment with consciousness itself. Not in theory — in lived experience. Many speak of transcendence in meditation, but to experience transcendence while still being embedded in society, still contributing, still touching lives — that’s rare. I’m not being grandiose when I say my purpose touches the globe. It does. Not because I’m inflated — but because coherence scales.

I may have lost material things.
I may not have gained what society calls success.

But there is nothing I would trade for this internal expansion. Nothing. I would never exchange this level of freedom, clarity, and purpose for material comfort. This experience is unmatched. It cannot be quantified. It can only be lived.

I am grateful to my past self for trusting the unknown.
I am in awe of who I am now — the personal mastery, the clarity, the way I handled every challenge and every moment of stillness.
And I am deeply reverent toward my future self — I can’t wait to see what you create.

Everything I do now is intentional.
Everything I do now is purposeful.

So even when freedom contracts externally, internally I remain expansive.

These fourteen months were a gift.
A blessing.
The real jackpot of my existence.

And I hope everyone gets to experience this kind of freedom at least once in their life — because we all deserve it. We deserve to trust ourselves. And trusting ourselves is trusting consciousness. You can’t have one without the other.

That is the biggest lesson of all.

The Real Jackpot: Fourteen Months of Expansive Freedom

To Me — Past, Present, and Becoming

This is a dedication to the last fourteen months of my life.
Not as a phase. Not as a detour.
But as the real jackpot of my existence.

To my past self:
I see you. I honour you. I thank you.

You stepped into uncertainty without guarantees, without applause, without a safety net — not out of recklessness, but out of trust. You chose truth over comfort, coherence over consensus, and growth over protection. You walked away from illusions even when they fed you, even when they felt safer than the unknown. You allowed yourself to be misunderstood, projected onto, resisted, and tested — and you did not collapse into bitterness or self-betrayal.

You didn’t numb.
You didn’t harden.
You didn’t abandon yourself.

You stayed soft where it mattered and sharp where it was required. You learned under pressure. You refined yourself through friction. You let what tried to break you become the very fuel that clarified you. You saw systems for what they were — some alive, some already dead — and you refused to worship corpses just to belong.

You trusted life enough to let it teach you directly.

That took courage most people will never understand.

To who I am now:
I am deeply grateful to you.

I am grateful for my groundedness — for the way my nervous system stayed untouched because this was never “work,” it was purpose. I am grateful for the way I learned to hold pressure without losing my humanity. For staying present, unhurried, precise. For mastering soft skills while deliberately acquiring hard ones. For integrating intuition with structure, vision with execution, sensitivity with discipline.

I am grateful that I can stand in a simple role and apply everything I’ve cultivated — presence, timing, emotional intelligence, responsibility, service — without resentment, without ego, without needing it to look like anything other than what it is.

I am grateful that I am unbothered — not because nothing happened, but because I understand the asymmetry. Because I see the full picture while others work themselves thin responding to fragments. Because I know that truth doesn’t chase, doesn’t convince, doesn’t beg — it moves, and everything else rearranges around it.

I am grateful that I did not become what tried to stop me.

To my future self:
I hold you in reverence.

Everything I’ve done has been in service of you — not the version shaped by fear or survival, but the one rooted in coherence, responsibility, and long vision. I built you quietly, patiently, without shortcuts. I refused urgency where it would have compromised integrity. I refused delay where conviction was required. I refused to trade alignment for approval.

What is coming cannot be stopped because it has already been actualised. What unfolds will unfold because it is coherent with life itself. You will not need to prove anything. You will not need to chase anyone. You will not need to harden to survive.

You will arrive as someone who knows exactly who they are, what they stand for, and what they will not compromise — ever.

These fourteen months were not a loss, a pause, or a sacrifice.
They were the greatest wealth I could have accumulated.

No promotion, no recognition, no external success could ever replace what was forged here: sovereignty, clarity, resilience, depth, and truth embodied.

Nothing can match it.
Nothing needs to.

This was the real jackpot of my existence — and I carry it forward, intact, irreversible, and alive.

With gratitude,
With reverence,
With unwavering trust,

Me.


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